Amendments to section 70 will conform the categories of nurse practitioner specialties to the current categories for which national certification is available. Nurse practitioners who hold a title in a specialty category that is amended or deleted will be allowed to retain the specialty category in which they were initially licensed or, if qualified, be issued a license in a new specialty category.

Chapters Affected

Only affects this chapter.

Exempt from APA

No, this action is subject to the Administrative Process Act and the standard
executive branch review process.

RIS Project

Yes [004457]

Note

This action is not intended to satisfy the requirement that an entire regulation be reviewed every 4 years.